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Substance Abuse Prevention Division

Nevis Street | St. John's | | Antigua y Barbuda

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Contact Data

Phone

268 562-6757
268 462-4701

Web

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Business hours

8:00 Am to 4:30 PM Monday to Thursday 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM Friday

Institution

Type of organisation
Gubernamental/Pública - Nacional
Institutional presentation
Educate the general public about the dangers of drug abuse. Reduce the use of illegal drugs in Antigua and Barbuda. Prevent indiscriminate use of legal drugs.
Direct beneficiaries
  • Usuarios experimentales de drogas
  • Usuarios de drogas en general
  • Consumidores problemáticos de drogas
  • Ex consumidores de drogas
  • Grupos motivacionales (donde hay consumidores y no consumidores)
  • Mujeres con uso problemático de sustancias
  • Mujeres con hijos a cargo
  • Grupos específicos –mujeres consumidoras de crack, trabajadoras sexuales, personas que inhalan solventes, jóvenes que dejan el sistema educativo…
Target population activities
  • Familia / Padres
Objective of the centre/ services
To reduce and or eliminate substance use and misuse through education and counselling.
National coverage
It is indeed local, national and targeted. No one is being discriminated. Once the person needs the help they can access it.

Intervention framework

Intervention types
  • Prevención
  • Tratamiento
  • Inserción / Integración social
  • Reducción de Riesgos
Intervention framework for Prevención
  • Escuela / Educación primaria
  • Escuela / Educación secundaria
  • Comunidad
  • Eventos públicos
  • Familia
  • Lugar de trabajo
Intervention framework for Tratamiento
  • Grupos de autoayuda
Intervention framework for Inserción / Integración social
  • Apoyo a la educación
Intervention framework for Reducción de Riesgos
  • Programas de base comunitaria (trabajo de redes y territorio, inclusión social)
  • Intervenciones de prevención y educación en salud
Activities
  • Acompañamiento
  • Difusión
  • Educación para la salud
  • Formación
  • Información
  • Orientación
  • Reparto de material
  • Sensibilización
  • Trabajo de calle
Description of the main activities

The European Commission (EC), the International and Ibero-American Foundation for Public Administration and Policy (FIIAPP), and specifically, the COPOLAD Coordination and Execution Body (ECB-COPOLAD) are not responsible in any way for the content or data collected in the Directory of Centers and Services of COPOLAD. In all cases, the information provided has been screened by the Agency responsible for drugs policies in each country. The referenced data of the Centers and Services are the sole responsibility of the institutions that provide them and, therefore, their insertion in such Directory does not reflect in any case the supporting of their positions or processes developed by each Center or Service. Likewise, these Centers or Services are not financed in any case by the COPOLAD Programme or the European Commission.